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We analyze nonlinear degenerate coupled PDE-PDE and PDE-ODE systems that arise, for example, in the modelling of biofilm growth. One of the equations, describing the evolution of a biomass density, exhibits degenerate and singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Koondanibha Mitra , Stefanie Sonner

A system of partial differential equations representing stochastic neural fields was recently proposed with the aim of modelling the activity of noisy grid cells when a mammal travels through physical space. The system was rigorously…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-18 José Antonio Carrillo , Pierre Roux , Susanne Solem

In this paper, we investigate the initial value problem for symmetric hyperbolic systems on globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds with potentials that are both nonlocal in time and space. When the potential is retarded and uniformly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Felix Finster , Simone Murro , Gabriel Schmid

In this paper, we consider the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for a physical model of the extrusion process, which is described by two systems of conservation laws with a free boundary. By suitable change of coordinates and fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-16 Peipei Shang , Mamadou Diagne , Zhiqiang Wang

Various aspects of the Cauchy problem for the Einstein equations are surveyed, with the emphasis on local solutions of the evolution equations. Particular attention is payed to giving a clear explanation of conceptual issues which arise in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-21 H. Friedrich , A. D. Rendall

The principle part of Einstein equations in the harmonic gauge consists of a constrained system of 10 curved space wave equations for the components of the space-time metric. A new formulation of constraint-preserving boundary conditions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-20 M. C. Babiuc , H-O. Kreiss , Jeffrey Winicour

We show that with a small modification, the formulation of the Einstein equations of Uggla et al, which uses tetrad variables normalised by the expansion, is a mixed symmetric hyperbolic/parabolic system. Well-posedness of the Cauchy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 David Garfinkle , Carsten Gundlach

We review what is known about boundary conditions in General Relativity on a spacetime of Euclidean signature. The obvious Dirichlet boundary condition, in which one specifies the boundary geometry, is actually not elliptic and in general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-18 Edward Witten

We study the constraint equations for the Einstein-scalar field system on compact manifolds. Using the conformal method we reformulate these equations as a determined system of nonlinear partial differential equations. By introducing a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat , James Isenberg , Daniel Pollack

This paper is concerned with the initial-boundary value problem for an evolutionary variational inequality complying with three intrinsic properties: complete irreversibility, unilateral equilibrium of an energy and an energy conservation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Goro Akagi , Kotaro Sato

A general covariant extension of Einstein\'{}s field equations is considered with a view to Numerical Relativity applications. The basic variables are taken to be the metric tensor and an additional four-vector $Z_\mu$. Einstein's solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-21 C. Bona , T. Ledvinka , C. Palenzuela , M. Zacek

A new constraint suppressing formulation of the Einstein evolution equations is presented, generalizing the five-parameter first-order system due to Kidder, Scheel and Teukolsky (KST). The auxiliary fields, introduced to make the KST system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert Owen

We prove global stability of Minkowski space for the Einstein vacuum equations in harmonic (wave) coordinate gauge for the set of restricted data coinciding with Schwartzschild solution in the neighborhood of space-like infinity. The result…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-21 Hans Lindblad , Igor Rodnianski

We study whether the solutions of a fully nonlinear, uniformly parabolic equation with superquadratic growth in the gradient satisfy initial and homogeneous boundary conditions in the classical sense, a problem we refer to as the classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Alexander Quaas , Andrei Rodríguez

The resolution of a very large class of linear and non-linear, stationary and evolutive partial differential problems in the half-space (or similar) under the slip boundary condition is reduced here to that of the corresponding results for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-08-20 H. Beirão da Veiga , F. Crispo , C. R. Grisanti

We consider wave equations in domains with time-dependent boundaries (moving obstacles) contained in a fixed cylinder for all time. We give sufficient conditions for the determination of the moving boundary from the Cauchy data on part of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 Gregory Eskin , James Ralston

We consider the Einstein-Dirac system for a massive field, which describes the evolution of self-gravitating massive spinor fields, and we investigate the global evolution problem, when the initial data set is sufficiently close to data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-24 Philippe G. LeFloch , Yue Ma , Weidong Zhang

It is possible to solve the Einstein constraint equations as an evolutionary rather than an elliptic system. Here we consider the Gauss constraint in electrodynamics as a toy model for thist. We use a combination of the evolutionary method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-17 Ingemar Bengtsson , Istvan Racz

Well-posedness of the initial (boundary) value problem is an essential property, both of meaningful physical models and of numerical applications. To prove well-posedness of wave-type equations their level of hyperbolicity is an essential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-20 Ronny Richter , David Hilditch

We study the Cauchy problems for the Hartree-type nonlinear Dirac equations with Yukawa-type potential in two and three spatial dimensions. This paper improves our previous results \cite{chohlee,cholee}; we establish global well-posedness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Yonggeun Cho , Seokchang Hong , Kiyeon Lee